Photograph exhibitor



Nov. 5, 1929.

H. F. BAND T PHOTOGRAPH EXHIBITOR 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed Jan. 50, 1929ATTORNEY WITNESSES NOV. 5, 1929. BANDT 1,734,790

HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH OR heet 2 4 NNNNNN OR fifmzand ATTORNEY Patented Nov.5, 1929 UNITED marine FFICE PI-IGTOGBAIH EXHIBITOR Application filedJanuary 30, 1929.

This invention appertains to improvements in photograph exhibitors andthe like generally, and ha for an object to provide a type of the sameparticularly adapted for 5 use in the home, whereby photographs of thefamily and friends will be systematically kept in a manner that they maybe readily and easily exposed to view when desired, and yet be retainedin a fixed order of arrangement within a cabinet or casing employed tohouse them, and to thereby avoid undue and otherwise possible injurioushandling of the same.

Another object of the invention is to pro vide a cabinet for the housingof a comparatively large number of photographs and the like, and in amanner that the same will be fully protected from the injurious efiectsof light, and otherwise possible dust accumulations thereon when not inuse.

A further object of the invention resides in the provision in thecabinet aforesaid of a plurality of supports for photographs and thelike, which are so mounted that the photographs may be readily andeasily placed in position. on one or both sides of each support, andthat the supports will be movable relatively to one another, somewhatafter the manner of the leaves or pages of a book, as

to successively display the photographs to view at the upper side of thecabinet when a closure for the latter is removed, or otherwise moved toopen position.

Another object of the invention is to provide a photograph exhibitingcabinet as hereinbefore characterized, which is extremely simple butdurable and efficient in construction and arrangement, and comparativelyinexpensive to manufacture.

With the foregoing and other equally important objects and advantages inview, the invention resides in the certain new and useful constructionand arrangement of parts as will he hereinafter more fully described,set forth in the appended claims, and illus trated in the accompanyingdrawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective View of a preferred embodiment of theinvention, showing the cabinet in open position,

Serial No. 336,318.

Figure 2 is an enlarged vertical longitudinal section through the same,

Figure 3 is an enlarged fragmentary vertical transverse section throughone side wall of the cover portion of the cabinet, and show ing themanner of journalling the roller, to which the photograph holders areattached, in the side wall,

Figure f is an enlarged fragmentary portion of the roller, and showingthe manner of attaching the photograph holders to the same, and

Figure 5 is a perspective view of a spring tensioned roller employed forholding the rotating unit of photograph supports in balance, when theload of photographs is not equally distributed on the several holders orsupports.

7 Referring to the drawings wherein like characters of referencedesignate corresponding parts throughout the several views there of, theembodiment of the invention, as shown therein by way of example, isconstituted in a cabinet 10, which is preferably rectangular in form,and open at its upper side, and which may be constructed from eitherwood, metal. or other suit-able material, as desired. The open side ofthe cabinet is to be normally closed by a cover 11, which is preferablyhinged, as at 12, to the upper edge of one of the longer side wallsthereof. A usual form of sliding support 13 is preferably hinged at oneend to the under side of the cover 11 at a point adjacent one end edgethereof, and is slotted in the longitudinal direction of the same forengagement over a pin or stud 14 at the inner side of the adjacent endwalls of the cabinet 10, so as to sustain the cover in its fully openedposition.

Journaled, as at 15, in the opposite side walls of the cabinet 10, at aslight distance inwardly from the top edges of the walls and in theplane of the transverse center thereof, is a roller or shaft 16, also ofwood or other suitable material, and to which is secured, in thelongitudinal direction of the same, one edge of each of a plurality offlexible hinge members 17. These hinge members 17 are preferably formedfrom a flexible material, such as cloth, leather or the like, and havetheir opposite or outer edges each attached to one edge of acorresponding number of leaves or panels 18 of cardboard or the like.The leaves or panels 18 are preferably of 'ectangular form, and have theopposite sides hereof each provided with a superimposed sheet of paperor other material 19, which is affixed in position thereon at its edgepor- -icns only, so as to form a pocket beneath the ame for theretention therein of a photograph. Each of the superimposed sheets 19are provided with a central opening 20 through which the body portion ofa photo graph will be exposed, and a slot 21 at one side of the opening20 through which a photograph will be inserted in proper position. Eachof the leaves or panels 18 also have the opposite sides of their outercorners providedwith relatively thick pieces of cardboard, or othersuitable material, preferably of triangular form, to weight the. outersides f the leaves or panels in a manner that the same will be rigidtoward a lowered position within the cabinet 10, as well as to hold themin slightly spaced relation. In lieu of these corner pieces 22, however,the entire outer side edges of each of the leaves or panels18 may beenclosed within the fold of a reinforcing strip of the material (notshown) extending from corner to corner for the same purpose.

In the use of the cabinet, as thus constructed and arranged and with anumber of photographs arranged one on the opposite sides of each of theleaves or panels 18 and beneath the sheets 19 as hereinbefore indicated,the leaves or panels 18 will swing under their own weight to positionsone against the other and downwardly of the interior of the cabinet 10,substantially as is shown in Figure 2, in which position the entiregroup of the leaves or panels will be balanced on p the roller or shaft16, so that the uppermost of the same, at the opposite sides of theroller or shaft, will lie substantially in a horizontal plane andparallel with the upper open side of the cabinet 10. Thus, with the lidor cover 11 closed, the several photographs will be entirely housedwithin the cabinet, and protected in the manner as hereinbeforesuggested.

Now, when it is desired to view the photographs, the user will open thecover or clo sure 11 by swinging the same upwardly and rearwardly on itshinges 12, and until it is supported by the member 13 from the pin orstud 1 1-. With the closure or lid 11 thus held in openposition, the twophotographs on the upper sides of the uppermost of the leaves or panels18 at the opposite sides of the roller or shaft 16, will be exposed tofull view, and" thereafter the remaining photographs on the reversesides of the other of the leaves or pain els 18 may be successivelybrought into similarly exposed positlon by turning the latter,

one after the other, and in either a right or left hand direction. Asthe weight of several additional leaves or panels 18, with the addedweight of the photographs thereon, is impressed upon the lower of thesame at one side of the roller or shaft 16, thelatter turns about itsaxis so that the leaves or panels 18, at the opposite sides of theroller or shaft, are successively brought into horizontal position, fromwhence they may be readily turned to a position at the opposite side ofthe roller or shaft 16. As each leaf or panel 18 is turned about theupper side of the roller or shaft 16 from one side to the other thereof,the photographs on the lower sides of the same will 'be'brought intouppermost position, so that both photographs, at the opposite sides ofthe same will be successively exposed to view at each turning of a leafor panel.

To hold the panel group or unit in a bal anced state, when a number ofphotographs are mounted on the leaves or panels in an unequallydistributed manner, a tension device is provided to cooperate with thethickened corner or edge portions of the leaves or pan els 18 torestrain the rotation of the roller or shaft 16 under the efiect of theunevenly distributed weight of the photographs on the leaves or panels,and, as shown in Figures 2 and 5, this device consists of a roller 23,which is journaled between a pair of spring supports 24 secured on thebottom wall of the cabinet 10, and which act to force the roller 23against the thickened corner or edge portions of the adjacent of theleaves or panels.

Without further description, it is thought that the features andadvantages of themvention will be readily apparent to those skilled inthe art, and it will of course. be understood that changes in the form,proportion and minor details of construction may be resorted to, withoutdeparting from the spirit of the invention or its scope as claimed.

Having thus fully described the invention, what is claimed is:

1. In a device of the class described, a cabinet, a shaft journaledcrossways of the cabinet at the center of the same, a plurality ofphotograph holders, means for hinging said holders to and about saidshaft, whereby the said holders will be normally grouped within thecabinet below and to either side of said. shaft and in a manner thatthey may be swung on their hinge connections about the" upper side ofsaid shaft from one side of the same to the other to successively exposethe photographs carried by said holders to view at the upper side ofsaid cabinet, and means at the outer side of said holders for weightingthe same toward the lower side of said shaft.

2. In a device of the class described, a cabinet open at its upper side,a closure hingedly mounted on one edge of the open.

side of the cabinet, a shaft journalled at its opposite ends in the sidewalls of the cabinet and in a plane of the transverse center thereof, aplurality of flat supports each adapted to have a photograph mounted onthe reverse sides thereof, means for hinging said supports at one of theside edges thereof in spaced relation to and about said shaft, wherebythe said supports will rest one against the other at the opposite sidesof and below the said shaft and in a manner that they may be turned ontheir hinge connections about the upper side of said shaft from one sideto the other thereof to successively expose the photographs to view atthe open side of the cabinet, and means at the outer side of saidsupports for weighting the same toward the lower side of said shaft.

3. In a device of the class described, a cabinet open at its upper side,a closure hingedly mounted on one edge of the open side of the cabinet,a shaft journalled at its opposite ends in the side walls of the cabinetand in a plane of the transverse center thereof, a plurality of fiatsupports each adapted to have a photograph mounted on the reverse sidesthereof, means for hinging said sup ports at one of the side edgesthereof in spaced relation to and about said shaft, whereby the saidsupports will rest one against the other at the opposite sides of andbelow the said shaft and in a manner that they may be turned on theirhinge connections about the upper side of said shaft from one side tothe other thereof to successively 6X pose the photographs to view at theopen side of the cambinet, and means on the opposite sides of the outerside edges of said supports for weighting the same toward the lower sideof said shaft.

4:. In a device of the class described, a cabinet open at its upperside, a closure hingedly mounted at one edge of the open side of thecabinet, a shaft journalled at its opposite ends in the side walls ofthe cabinet and in a plane of the transverse center thereof, a pluralityof fiat supports each adapted to have a photograph mounted on thereverse sides thereof, means for hinging said supports at one of theside edges thereof in spaced relation to and about said shaft, wherebythe said supports will rest one against the other at the 0pposite sidesof and below the said shaft in a manner that they may be turned on theirhinge connections about the upper side of said shaft from one side tothe other thereof to successively expose the photographs to view at theopen side of the cabinet, and members on the opposite corners and sidesof the outer side edges of said supports for weighting the same towardthe lower side of said shaft.

5. In a device of the class described, a cabinet open at its upper side,a closure hingedly mounted on one edge of the open side of the cabinet,a shaft j ournalled at its opposite ends in the side walls of thecabinet and in a plane of the transverse center thereof, a plurality offlat supports each adapted to have a photograph mounted on the reversesides thereof, means for hinging said supports at one of the side edgesthereof in spaced relation to and about said shaft, whereby the saidsupports will rest one against the other at the opposite sides of andbelow the said shaft and in a manner that they may be turned on theirhinge connections about the upper side of said ashaft from one side tothe other thereof to successively expose the photographs to view at theopen side of the cabinet, means at the outer side of said supports forweighting the same toward the lower side of said shaft, and springtensioned means for maintaining the balance of the photograph supportswhen the photographs are unevenly distributed throughout the supportgroup.

6. In a device of the class described, a cabinet open at its upper side,a closure hingedly mounted on one edge of the open side of the cabinet,a shaft journalled at its opposite ends in the side walls of the cabinetand in a plane of the transverse center thereof, a plurality of flatsupports each adapted to have a photograph mounted on the reverse sidesthereof, means for hinging said supports at one of the side edgesthereof in spaced relation to and about said shaft, whereby the saidsupports will rest one against the other at the opposite sides of andbelow the said shaft and in a manner that they may be turned on theirhinge connections about the upper side of said shaft from one side tothe other thereof to successively expose the photographs to view at theopen side of the cabinet, means at the outer side of said supports forweighting the same toward the lower side of said shaft, a roller adaptedto cooperate with the outer edges of said supports to maintain the samein balanced relation on said shaft when photographs are unevenlydistributed throughout the support group, and spring means fortensioning said roller in its operative position.

I-IELMUTH F. BANDT.

